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Leaseweb vs Scaleway

Scaleway is a French developer-oriented cloud with serverless and managed databases. Leaseweb covers more regions and emphasizes bare metal, CDN, and colocation.

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What's good about...

Leaseweb logo Leaseweb

  • 20+ data centers across four continents
  • 30 TB outgoing traffic included on every VPS
  • DDoS protection and 10 Gbps uplink standard on VPS
  • S3-compatible object storage in 6 regions
  • 99.99% SLA on GPU cloud, high durability on object storage

Scaleway logo Scaleway

  • Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
  • Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
  • Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
  • Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Leaseweb's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
$4.11 / mo 4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe (VPS 1)
Scaleway Scaleway
$11.46 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
$9.27 / mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe (VPS 2)
Scaleway Scaleway
$44.68 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Leaseweb Leaseweb
$14.42 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 300 GB NVMe (VPS 3)
Scaleway Scaleway
$182.15 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
$8.89 / mo 100 GB Network SSD, up to 5K IOPS
Scaleway Scaleway
$10.88 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
$19.85 / mo 1 TB stored
Scaleway Scaleway
$16.61 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
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Scaleway Scaleway
$13.20 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
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Scaleway Scaleway
$36.66 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
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Scaleway Scaleway
$40.10 / mo 2 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Leaseweb Leaseweb
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Scaleway Scaleway
$30.07 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Leaseweb Leaseweb
VPS includes 30 TB per instance. Incoming is free. 1 TB free pooled traffic per month
Scaleway Scaleway
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Leaseweb Leaseweb
$2.52 1 TB outgoing beyond free allowance · Drops to €1.00/TB at 100 TB.
Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Leaseweb Leaseweb
$0.70/hr
Scaleway Scaleway
$0.83/hr

Billing Options

Leaseweb Leaseweb
On-Demand
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Leaseweb offers 1 GPU model, while Scaleway offers 5.

Leaseweb Leaseweb
L4(10)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(2) L40S(4) L4(4) P100(1) RTX 3070(1)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Leaseweb and Scaleway offer:

Service Leaseweb Scaleway
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Leaseweb Leaseweb
www.leaseweb.com
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Leaseweb Leaseweb
Netherlands
Scaleway Scaleway
France
Founded
Leaseweb Leaseweb
1997
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
Leaseweb Leaseweb
10
Scaleway Scaleway
9
Example Customers
Leaseweb Leaseweb
Adjust, Crytek, Rijksmuseum, XDA Developers, Remerge, Jodel, International Paralympic Committee
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Leaseweb was last updated on June 11, 2026, and for Scaleway on Feb. 20, 2026.

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Vast.ai
Our sponsor
Per-second billing. Pay only for what you use.
50+ GPU models from RTX 3060 to B200, from $0.04/hr
No minimums, no long-term contracts.
SOC2 certified · PyTorch, CUDA & TensorFlow templates ready
Learn more